Quest ♆ oo1 [video]

[persea]

[Percy looks tired. He's in his pajamas and drinking milk at the counter in his kitchen.]

Hey, people of Vatheon. I figure it's about time I introduced myself on here. So far I've met some really cool people, and it's helping me get my bearings in this strange new place.

[He takes a swig of the milk, then wipes away a milk mustache with his sleeve. So classy.]

So anyway. I'm Percy Jackson. Been here a couple weeks now.

[His smile fades.]

I haven't been sleeping well. Anyone have any tips?

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[VIDEO]

[bethehugejerk]

--Oh.

[Slipped his mind in the wake of the other question.]

Work, cleaning, talk, reading, movies, training with my sickles, tending Chocobos, walks, relaxing, whatever. I am used to it. I had other things to deal with when I first started it up, but I kept up the habit and I suppose it completely failed to occur to my thinkpan that I'm supposed to run out of things to do once day hits. And yeah, I get bored sometimes, but so does everyone.

[VIDEO]

[persea]

I guess I need to find myself a hobby or something.

Sickles, huh? Hey are you at all interested in sparring?

[VIDEO]

[bethehugejerk]

[Karkat pulls a colorful weapon seemingly out of nowhere.]

Sickles. They're the weapon of choice for Threshecutioners, which were the most badass, deadly trolls our society had before the Vast Glub wiped out our species.

But yes, I'm interested in sparring. One condition: avoid the neck and the surrounding area, and don't ask why. What's your weapon?

[VIDEO]

[persea]

[Percy pulls out his own weapon, a normal black ballpoint pen. When he uncaps it, it becomes a three-for long sword.]

Very cool. And my weapon can't harm mortals.

Unless trolls are monsters, I can't hurt you with it.

[VIDEO]

[bethehugejerk]

[Karkat only raises an eyebrow when he first sees the pen; the transformation is nothing when he's used to Kanaya's lipstick chainsaws.]

I'm an alien from another planet and I was a god once, with some aftereffects clinging from the experience. But unless my lifespan got a special boost yet to show itself, I'm definitely mortal in that department.

Take that as you will, but avoid my neck either way.

[VIDEO]

[persea]

Aliens? Really? [That was...not even something he'd thought of.]

I can definitely do that. No worries, bro.

[VIDEO]

[bethehugejerk]

[Karkat stares at him a good long moment.]

Did it really not penetrate the dense, stony cranium you carry on your stem until now that the grey kid who talks about a different planet and different culture and altogether different mode of life than you humans is an actual fucking aline? Do you not know what the word means? Do I have to buy you a dictionary or do I have to beat it against your skull until the knowledge physically breaks into your brain?

So yes, aliens. Yes, really. Yes, we were even invaders, conquering planets across the galaxy, and yes one of our kind even took an Earth in our name, alone, because you suck that much next to our spacefaring might.

What did you even think I was, if not that?

[VIDEO]

[persea]

[Oh there's the jerkiness! Percy was starting to wonder.]

You can have a different culture without being from a different planet. And I am still not an idiot. The Earth is a big place. And I've met cyclopes and satyrs and centaurs and pegasi...a troll isn't that far of a stretch.

[VIDEO]

[bethehugejerk]

I'm from Alternia! It's a planet! Our home planet! And then it got wiped out in a meteoric apocalypse and the Vast Glub happened and all the rest of us died, the end, except the Empress who as mentioned went on to conquer Earth 2.0. The 2.0 is not a literal part the name, before you ask, if you would even think to do so at this rate.

Didn't I tell you last time that we completely made the universe that contained Earth? At least the Earth we interacted with, not yours. That does not speak to being from the same place, dumbass!

[VIDEO]

[persea]

That sucks, man. I'm sorry you lost your planet. [Now Percy is thinking about how Karkat is like Spock.]

I guess I didn't connect the dots. Sorry.

[VIDEO]

[bethehugejerk]

[Karkat doesn't know what a Spock is.]

No, you didn't connect the dots. You looked at them and probably thought they were freckles on the conversational face, nothing but spots to look at because god forbid you actually stop and think that maybe they formed a pattern, like some mystery picture encoded in some sorry bulgeblight's DNA just waiting for someone to figure it out.

[That metaphor kind of got away from him.]

...But it's in the past, and honestly this is a better life than I would have had in the long run if our planet and species stuck around.

[VIDEO]

[persea]

[That's okay, Percy does and that's all that matters.]

Wow you make a lot of assumptions. And expect me to, too, apparently.

Yeah? Life on your planet a bit different than Prince Gumball's Candy Kingdom, I assume?

[VIDEO]

[bethehugejerk]

It's called basic deductive skill, you moron.

Can we leave the candy people out of this? Please? Just declare a whole moratorium on the subject of him, his kingdom, and any sucrose lifeforms both within and without the boundaries of imagination. But yes, life was different.

[VIDEO]

[persea]

You don't know me, dude. Your "basic deductive skill" sounds more to me like snap judgments and general misanthropy. Give me a break, dude. This is the first time I've ever met an alien.

Fair enough. Just trying to make a joke. Well my life hasn't exactly been a cake walk either.

Er...sorry.

[video]

[fundemetal]

Dude, could you keep it down? I could hear you all the way from my room.

[He's walking through the kitchen and Percy can be seen in the background as Leo heads to the fridge.]

[video]

[bethehugejerk]

[Karkat purposely keeps the raised volume.]

No, I cannot keep it down, particularly when A) I don't know you, B) you're not part of this conversation, and C) this isn't even that loud for me! Trust me, you whiny little pustule, you have not heard the half of the raucous volumes my squawk blister can reach. Learn when to save the dumb comments and maybe you won't have to.

[video]

[fundemetal]

Chill, dude. [He's laughing. He knows a bit about Karkat from Percy and he's amused to find out just how true it is.]

The name is Leo Valdez, demigod son of Hephaestus. So now you know me. [He laughs again.]

Might not have been a part of that conversation except for the fact that I could hear you on my way to the kitchen. BUt I am a part of this conversation now.

What in Hades is a squawk blister?

[Leo, save his dumb comments? Never.]

[video]

[bethehugejerk]

Wrong. I know your name; I do not know you. And for the record, I won't buy the demigod thing any more easily from you than I did him.

This is a squawk blister.

[He points a finger at his mouth.]

If you can't keep up with the terms I use, I suggest you give up now.

Now what's Hades?

[video]

[fundemetal]

[Waves his hand] Small details. No need to nitpick, dude. And I don't expect you to buy the demigod thing. It doesn't work like that. You either got it or you don't. [Leo knows that's not what Karkat meant, but he can't resist.]

Geeze, if you can't keep up with the terms I use, then stop with the hypocrisy. Hades is a god. It's also the place where he resides. The underworld.

[VIDEO]

[ex_knowledge575]

[ Annabeth can hear this altercation in her bedroom and decides to listen in and see what's what. Her eyes widen as the conversation goes on. So this is one of the so-called trolls the boys had been talking about.

As far as she can tell Percy hasn't really even inspired this argument, other than by being a Seaweed Brain like usual, but she keeps her cool in battle, as always. ]

Don't mind my boyfriend, he just hasn't been sleeping well since we got here and it makes his mind hazy. I hope he didn't offend you, Mr...

[VIDEO]

[bethehugejerk]

His mind was "hazy" - [His fingers lift to mime the enclosure talons quote marks.] - from the time I first spoke to him when he couldn't follow a nice, detailed description of a topic I kindly took the time to explain to him. He didn't even absorb the first fucking concept I laid out.

I'm Karkat Vantas, and drop the Mister. What's your name?

Re: [VIDEO]

[ex_knowledge575]

[ Annabeth raises an eyebrow. She's used to being the only one to call Percy an idiot and she bites back a quick retort in favour of working out what actually went on here. ]

He has ADHD so 'detailed' was probably where you went wrong. What did you try to tell him?

Fair enough. I'm Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena.

[VIDEO]

[bethehugejerk]

See! He told me that, but it still sounds like "shitty excuse for being a bad listener." I tried to explain troll romance to him, which, yes, is complicated, but that's why the level of detail was required in the first place.

Let me guess, Athena is another of your so-called gods.

[VIDEO]

[ex_knowledge575]

Nope, it's an actual thing. Most demigods have it but some have it worse than others. [ Annabeth's worked hard to overcome hers although it was never anywhere near as bad as Percy's or Leo's. ]

Yep. Athena is goddess of wisdom, war, battle strategy... [ a beat ] and handicrafts. [ What can you do. ]

Can you tell me more about troll romance? Percy mentioned it and it sounded interesting.

[VIDEO]

[bethehugejerk]

Still not buying it. He didn't follow even the first quadrant I explained, which is closest to human romance out of any of them. You can't just excuse that level of failure to pay attention!

[He huffs a sigh. Her question gets a moment of consideration before he says:]

Will you actually listen properly to the whole thing? If you're actually the earth daughter of some force of wisdom, I will be frankly pissed if I go through the whole thing only for you to not live up to it.